Crossword for Thu, 31/Dec/2009

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Across
1: Faux follower

4: Game on horseback

8: Billiards surface

13: Out of work? (abbr.)

14: Regretted

15: Taper

16: ''Messiah,'' for one

18: Elegant fur

19: Entangle

20: Setbacks

22: Boils

26: Artifice

27: Lies down

29: Uttered

33: Seeming

36: Hit the books

37: 'I'm Sorry' singer Brenda

38: Merit

41: Half a score

42: Chagall and Antony

44: Laborious

46: Flute or saxophone variety

47: Antagonistic

49: Roe source

51: Nuns

55: Returns to original condition

59: Bailiwick

60: Point the finger at

61: Young rooster

65: Attaints

66: Chamber music instrument

67: Some gametes

68: Johnnycakes

69: Prayer accompaniment?

70: Pinot Noir or Merlot
Down
1: Big balls

2: Eagle's nest

3: Gaze fixedly

4: Old hand

5: '___ Town'

6: Welcoming gift on Maui

7: Skunk's funk

8: Exposes

9: Theater seat feature

10: Colored eye part

11: Twilight or time follower

12: Merino mamas

15: Skin spot

17: Colorful aquarium inhabitant

21: Palindromic preposition

23: Buffalo bunches

24: Olympic weapon

25: Juniors, usually

28: Manuscript markings

30: Mercury or Saturn

31: Footnote word

32: Unit of force

33: ___ mater

34: Sound of laughter

35: Sprightly

36: Gets a signature on the dotted line, perhaps

39: Goes bad

40: Last of Great Britain's King Henrys

43: Halloween wear

45: Bristles

47: Small game with big ears

48: Pindar product

50: Fire engine accessories

52: Fielder's faux pas

53: Superman who was a super man

54: Healthy lunch choice

55: Imitate Popeye

56: Sound on the rebound

57: Read quickly

58: Garbage barge

62: 'Shogun' sash

63: Debate side

64: Barrel of suds




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